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Madness
🚨ALERT: The editors of the journal Men and Masculinities will no longer allow authors to refer to individuals as being "male."
If an author uses the term, they should "specify which dimension(s) of sex are at issue, since sex itself refers to several only loosely correlated dimensions rather than a single underlying fact."
For example, trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas must be referred to as a woman, and his maleness, if mentioned at all, must be attached to specific traits, like genitals, hormones, and chromosomes.
You cannot call Lia Thomas a "male" in this journal, but a woman with "male genitals" and "male sex chromosomes."
The first author of this editorial—the Managing Editor of Men and Masculinities, Tristen Kade—is a woman who identifies as a man.
The model of biological sex this editorial is pushing is what I refer to in my scholarly article "Why There Are Exactly Two Sexes" as the "multi-level" sex model. This model is not merely wrong—it is self-refuting.
From my article:
"Traits are labeled 'male-typical' or 'female-typical' only because they correlate with organisms already identified as male or female—an identification that, in anisogamous species, is made ultimately by reference to gametes."
Read my article at the link below.
🔗link.springer.com/article/10…
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The sheer fucking hypocrisy surrounding Elon Musk is breathtaking.
For decades, billionaire-funded foundations have financed advocacy groups, political campaigns, legal organizations, and efforts to reshape public policy.
George Soros is one of the most prominent examples.
And somehow that influence is routinely presented as enlightened philanthropy.
Then Elon Musk enters politics, spends openly, challenges powerful institutions, and suddenly the entire establishment discovers the dangers of billionaire influence.
Give me a fucking break.
The man has built companies that launch rockets, connect the world through satellites, manufacture vehicles, and advance technologies with enormous implications for humanity.
His long-term ambition is to make civilization multiplanetary.
He has a profound personal interest in a future where technological progress remains possible.
You can disagree with his politics.
But pretending he’s just another billionaire looking for influence ignores the extraordinary scale of what he’s actually trying to accomplish.
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> Majestic snow-capped peaks
It's getting colder in the Northern Hemisphere, so I have to say this one's a good fit. The red accents do give it a warm feel, don't you think?
Get yours @ opensea.io/collection/ainted…
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What if you knew everything about color perception in the brain, but had never seen color yourself? Join me for this week's Inner Cosmos: "What is Color? Part 1: Why hunters wear orange"
eagleman.com/podcast/115
#brain #color
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Good fucking morning to everyone!
Just grabbed this gem from @STASHAPES
🤖 Made with AI
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Tech moats built over years are becoming someone’s weekend project.
Give customers a reason to stay: make your platform where they get paid, manage money and pay others.
Embed financial services into your product with Finance Computer.
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#mvxPulse: recent coding raised the tide on on our average ƒTPS for each crowdPulse™️ yesterday. We had 5-8 people, our loyal #pulseArmy, in the crowd, & in the TG group. Friendly, positive banter (always). All are welcome.
mvxpulsebeta.fromdrew.com
t.me/mvxPulse
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Read books. Encourage your friends and families to read.
Read to learn. Read to satisfy curiosity. Read to understand the world. Read to spark creativity and imagination. Read to improve communication. Read to enhance empathy. Read just for fun. But read.
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Katharine Birbalsingh for Education Secretary. 👏🇬🇧
She runs Michaela, a school that's 60% Muslim, and her rule is simple: everyone puts the good of the group above personal demands. Otherwise it doesn't work.
Bending to every religious or cultural demand isn't kindness. It's a failure to serve the WHOLE community.
And let's be honest, it often feels like everyone's faith gets bent over backwards for except Christianity. Nativity plays scrapped, crosses frowned on, Christmas watered down.
One rule for everyone. That's fairness.
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If a random phone number calls you and uses an AI voice to tell you that they are from @Revolut and they are checking out to see if you’ve ordered the @amazon Prime package worth of 78€ by asking you to press 1 (to confirm that it was you), DON’T PRESS 1!
Just close the call! 👈🏻
Stay safe out there!
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Muslim women in burqas voting in the Israeli elections today.
Muslim women have more rights in Israel than in basically any Muslim country.
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Leftists swore they’d kill X by fleeing to Bluesky in 2024. 2 years later, X still pulls about 40x the daily users.
After the 2024 election, the Guardian ditched X over “disturbing content,” journalists and celebrities piled in calling Bluesky the healthier option, and the app briefly hit roughly 22 million monthly users.
Then the numbers tanked.
By mid 2026, monthly users had dropped about 52% to around 10.7 million even as registered accounts neared 46 million.
In March, the CEO stepped down and handed it off. Bluesky is now at about 3 million daily users while X logs roughly 124 million.
Those who announced the exodus mostly just moved their loudest voices into a much smaller room, while the platform they abandoned kept growing without them.
Elon fired roughly 80% of Twitter’s staff without crashing the site the way every “expert” swore it would.
After the November 2022 cuts and the “hardcore” ultimatum that drove hundreds of engineers out the door, the remaining team handled record World Cup traffic that was supposed to break the platform.
When Musk later told the BBC the cuts were painful but necessary to avoid bankruptcy, the results were already clear.
Zuckerberg watched it happen, called 2023 Meta’s “year of efficiency,” and cut about 21,000 jobs while saying the leaner Twitter was probably good for the industry.
4 years later, X still runs on a fraction of the old headcount, which shows the large staff everyone religiously believed was essential was mostly optional the entire time.
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Today, I am recommending four essential works by Donald Wandrei, who co-founded Arkham House with August Derleth to preserve H.P. Lovecraft’s work and wrote SF on a vast, cosmic scale.
The Red Brain (1927): As cosmic dust smothers the universe, the last surviving minds, sheltering on the giant star Antares, struggle to find a way to stave off extinction. Wandrei’s chilling vision of the end of everything culminates in a uniquely disturbing twist.
Colossus (1934): When an astronomer discovers that the universe is smaller than anyone believed, the pilot of Earth’s first interstellar ship sets out of find its edge. It’s mind-bending, scale-shifting SF that puts the very nature of existence into perspective.
A Race Through Time (1933): Two rial scientists, one aboard and atomic-powered craft and the other relying on drugs that suspect aging, race toward the Earth of a million from now, with the woman they love at stake. Pulpy, audacious, and Wandrei at his most epic.
The Web is Easter Island (1948): A strange green statuette linked to a trail of deaths draws an archeologist into a nightmare that leads from Stonehenge to Easter Island and far beyond our own age. It’s a strange, ambitious novel that blends weird horror with speculative science.
Check out the quoted thread for the recommended works of Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Bob Shaw, Clifford D. Simak, Algis Budrys, A.E. van Vogt, C.L. Moore, Cordwainer Smith, C.M. Kornbluth, D.G. Compton, Thomas M. Disch, Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.), John Brunner, Judith Merril, Hal Clement, James Blish, Jack Williamson, Katherine MacLean, Fred Saberhagen, Jack Vance, Leigh Brackett, Edgar Pangborn, R.A. Lafferty, William Tenn, Kate Wilhelm, Avram Davidson, James H. Schmitz, Eric Frank Russell, Brian W. Aldiss, Carol Emshwiller, Wilson Tucker, Chad Oliver, Zenna Henderson, Pauline Ashwell, Frederik Pohl, Henry Kuttner, Barrington J. Bayley, James P. Hogan, C.J. Cherryh, Margaret St. Clair, Keith Laumer, Charles L. Harness, Howard Waldrop, Rosel George Brown, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, H. Beam Piper, Daniel F. Galouye, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Tom Godwin, Andre Norton, Harry Harrison, Vonda McIntyre, John Christopher, John Wyndham, Michael Bishop, Doris Piserchia, Bob Buckley, George Alec Effinger, Olaf Stapledon, John Varley, Miriam Allen deFord, Raymond F. Jones, Suzette Haden Elgin, Richard Cowper, Bruce Sterling, Josephine Saxton, Mack Reynolds, Phyllis Gotlieb, E.E. “Doc” Smith, Sterling E. Lanier, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, George Turner, Octavia E. Butler, Philip José Farmer, Somtow Sucharitkul, Charles Sheffield, Sonya Dorman, Clark Ashton Smith, Norman Spinrad, Naomi Mitchison, Suzy Mckee Charnas, Barry N. Malzberg, Paul Preuss, Lloyd Biggle Jr., George S. Schuyler, Damon Knight, Nancy Kress, E.C. Tubb, John Sladek, Joan D. Vinge, Ward Moore, Marta Randall, Robert L. Forward, Ian Watson, Brian Stableford, Keith Roberts, David R. Bunch, Michael G. Coney, Frank M. Robinson, Christopher Priest, Vernor Vinge, Lee Hoffman, Wilmar H. Shiras, Lucius Shepard, David I. Masson, Mildred Clingerman, Leigh Kennedy, Ernest Hogan, Jack Womack, Kenneth Bulmer, Mark Clifton, Kage Baker, Murray Leinster, Evelyn E. Smith, Kris Neville, Edmond Hamilton, James White, Wyman Guin, Emil Petaja, John Boyd, Christopher Anvil, Alan E. Nourse, T.J. Bass, Colin Kapp, Edmund Cooper, Rog Phillips, Mark S. Geston, James E. Gunn, Walter Tevis, Maureen F. McHugh, John Crowley, George O. Smith, Cherry Wilder, F.L. Wallace, G.C. Edmondson, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Pamela Sargent, Robert F. Young, Fred Hoyle, Eleanor Arnason, Bertram A. Chandler, Charles Eric Maine, Tanith Lee, Kathleen Ann Goonan, J.T. McIntosh, Philip Wylie, Tom Purdom, and Richard McKenna.
Today, I am recommending four essential works by Richard McKenna, a 22-year Navy veteran best known for The Sand Pebbles, who also wrote a handful of quietly brilliant SF stories about the mind’s power to reshape reality.
Casey Agonistes (1958): In a tuberculosis ward, dying men conjure an invisible mischievous ape as their defiance against despair. It’s a funny and heartbreaking short story.
Hunter, Come Home (1963): An alien world’s ecosystem resists colonization, and a young man must choose between his culture’s code of conquest and the planet’s strange, interconnected life This novelette is early ecological SF.
"The Secret Place” (1966): A wartime geologist hunting uranium in the Oregon desert finds the key in a lonely young woman’s childhood fantasy of a hidden world. This short story won the Nebula Award posthumously.
Fiddler’s Green (1967): Castaways adrift and starving in an open boat imagine a better place so intensely that reality begins to bend in this haunting novella.
Check out the quoted thread for the recommended works of Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Bob Shaw, Clifford D. Simak, Algis Budrys, A.E. van Vogt, C.L. Moore, Cordwainer Smith, C.M. Kornbluth, D.G. Compton, Thomas M. Disch, Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.), John Brunner, Judith Merril, Hal Clement, James Blish, Jack Williamson, Katherine MacLean, Fred Saberhagen, Jack Vance, Leigh Brackett, Edgar Pangborn, R.A. Lafferty, William Tenn, Kate Wilhelm, Avram Davidson, James H. Schmitz, Eric Frank Russell, Brian W. Aldiss, Carol Emshwiller, Wilson Tucker, Chad Oliver, Zenna Henderson, Pauline Ashwell, Frederik Pohl, Henry Kuttner, Barrington J. Bayley, James P. Hogan, C.J. Cherryh, Margaret St. Clair, Keith Laumer, Charles L. Harness, Howard Waldrop, Rosel George Brown, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, H. Beam Piper, Daniel F. Galouye, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Tom Godwin, Andre Norton, Harry Harrison, Vonda McIntyre, John Christopher, John Wyndham, Michael Bishop, Doris Piserchia, Bob Buckley, George Alec Effinger, Olaf Stapledon, John Varley, Miriam Allen deFord, Raymond F. Jones, Suzette Haden Elgin, Richard Cowper, Bruce Sterling, Josephine Saxton, Mack Reynolds, Phyllis Gotlieb, E.E. “Doc” Smith, Sterling E. Lanier, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, George Turner, Octavia E. Butler, Philip José Farmer, Somtow Sucharitkul, Charles Sheffield, Sonya Dorman, Clark Ashton Smith, Norman Spinrad, Naomi Mitchison, Suzy Mckee Charnas, Barry N. Malzberg, Paul Preuss, Lloyd Biggle Jr., George S. Schuyler, Damon Knight, Nancy Kress, E.C. Tubb, John Sladek, Joan D. Vinge, Ward Moore, Marta Randall, Robert L. Forward, Ian Watson, Brian Stableford, Keith Roberts, David R. Bunch, Michael G. Coney, Frank M. Robinson, Christopher Priest, Vernor Vinge, Lee Hoffman, Wilmar H. Shiras, Lucius Shepard, David I. Masson, Mildred Clingerman, Leigh Kennedy, Ernest Hogan, Jack Womack, Kenneth Bulmer, Mark Clifton, Kage Baker, Murray Leinster, Evelyn E. Smith, Kris Neville, Edmond Hamilton, James White, Wyman Guin, Emil Petaja, John Boyd, Christopher Anvil, Alan E. Nourse, T.J. Bass, Colin Kapp, Edmund Cooper, Rog Phillips, Mark S. Geston, James E. Gunn, Walter Tevis, Maureen F. McHugh, John Crowley, George O. Smith, Cherry Wilder, F.L. Wallace, G.C. Edmondson, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Pamela Sargent, Robert F. Young, Fred Hoyle, Eleanor Arnason, Bertram A. Chandler, Charles Eric Maine, Tanith Lee, Kathleen Ann Goonan, J.T. McIntosh, Philip Wylie, and Tom Purdom.
